Patterns of innovation in knowledge-intensive business services

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 407-430

  Amara, Nabil ^a   Landry, Réjean ^a   Doloreux, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementarity; KIBS; Regression models; Survey data; Types of service innovation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INNOVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349829425     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060802307847     Document Type: Article

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